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The Art of Fritz Reiner Vol.1

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Label: Music and Arts

Cat No: WHRA6024

Barcode: 5425008376776

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Release Date: 6th April 2009

Works

Debussy
Petite Suite (arr. Busser)

Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin

Bartok
2 Roumanian Dances (arr. Serly)

Bartok
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Bartok
Three Hungarian Sketches

Mussorgsky/Shostakovich
3 scenes from Boris Godunov

Rossini
Overture to Semiramid

R Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

R Strauss
Don Quixote, Op.35

Mozart
Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 “Jupiter”

Mozart
Overture to The Impresario, K.486

Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98

J Strauss II
Wiener Blut, Op.354

J Strauss II
Die Fledermaus Overture

Prokofiev
Lt. Kije Suite, Op.60

Shostakovich
Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.54

Hindemith
Mathis der Maler Symphony

Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture

Villa-Lobos
Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No.5

Falla
Three Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat

Puccini
Un bel di from Madama Butterfly

Artists

Carleton Cooley (viola)
Mischa Mischakoff (violin)
Frank Miller (cello)
Bidu Sayao (soprano)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Fritz Reiner

Works

Artists

Carleton Cooley (viola)
Mischa Mischakoff (violin)
Frank Miller (cello)
Bidu Sayao (soprano)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Fritz Reiner

About

Reiner is still celebrated as the conductor’s conductor by colleagues everywhere, a legend in his own time who has re-emerged as one in ours. Reiner was not a born performing musician, for he was no showman and had no intention of playing to the gallery. He respected listeners’ aural attention and cared little about being regarded as a famous maestro or a celebrity. The indefinable quality associated with performing music at concerts breathes life into these performances.

Though Reiner made well-known commercial recordings of more than half the works represented here, these live readings inject an extra sense of urgency and occasion into the proceedings. The main hallmarks of Reiner’s conducting are displayed consistently throughout these CDs: a concern for precise, idiomatic articulation and phrasing in varied repertoire; attention to the different periods and styles of music; a superior ability to balance all sections of an orchestra, from the treble instruments to the bass, across a wide dynamic spectrum; a strong sense of forward momentum, vivid pacing, and textural and agogic subtlety.

Whatever one feels about individual performances on these discs, no-one could listen to them and accuse Reiner, as some glib critics have done, of being a remote or cold interpreter of great technical capacity but with no great feeling for the music performed.

Contents:
- Debussy (arr. Busser): Petite Suite
- Bartok (arr. Serly): 2 Roumanian Dances
- Ravel (arr. Ravel): Le Tombeau de Couperin
- R Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 19 January 1952

- Mozart: Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 “Jupiter”
- Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 15 December 1946

- Mussorgsky/Shostakovich: 3 scenes from Boris Godunov (Kipnis - Bass)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, 23 July 1944

- Rossini: Overture to Semiramid
- R Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35
with Frank Miller, cello; Carleton Cooley; viola, Mischa Mischakoff; violin
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 10 March 1942

- Mozart: Overture to The Impresario, K.486
- Mozart: Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
- J Strauss II: Wiener Blut, Op.354
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 5 January 1947

- Prokofiev: Lt. Kije Suite, Op.60
- Shostakovich: Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.54
The Cleveland Orchestra, 14 January 1945

- Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Symphony
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 29 December 1946

- Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
- Villa-Lobos: Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No.5 (with Bidu Sayão, soprano & Frank Miller, solo cello)
- Bartok: Three Hungarian Sketches
- Falla: Three Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat
- Puccini: Un bel di from Madama Butterfly (with Bidu Sayão, soprano)
- J Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 11 June, 1950